THERE IS NO YAOI IN THIS STORY AT ALL!! NONE!! DON"T FORGET IT!! But I won't discourage wishful thinking, if you want to turn this into a yaoi in your own mind don't hesitate to do so, as long as you don't suggest any slashy pairings...
/ Blah / = hikari
// Blah // = yami
I am using Yami from the manga and in the manga, for those of you who haven't read it, he isn't so tall when he takes over Yuugi's body, not quite as obvious! He's the same size as Yuugi was himself. But, I like the fact that his voice is deeper in the anime so it will be the same here.
The silver spoon clattered into the empty bowl as Yuugi threw it down. He was starving, he supposed it was because Yami was using some of his energy, but he dared not ask his mother for more.
"So, Yami, was it you that opened my window last night?"
// Yes, I wanted to look around. // Yuugi could feel the being inside him nod. //You don't go outside at all? // Yami could feel his aibou wince inwardly.
"No I don't, mother says I could get sick and die...like dad..." he added quietly.
//She is too overprotective, isn't she? //
"Yami," Yuugi said playfully, "you aren't tying to get me to go outside are you? If you can read my mind I know that you know I can't do that!"
//Not even for the rest of the day? //
"No."
//But she would never know. //
"How do you know that?"
//I don't, but if she is in fact angry with you then she has no reason to. // Yuugi pondered this for a few moments.
"I guess..." he said slowly, "but how would I get out of my room without her noticing?"
//The same way I did, through the window. //
"I can't do that!" Yelled Yuugi, looking down at the ground below which suddenly seemed a lot farther away.
//I can do it for you. //
"Oh, well, I suppose we could...where would we go?"
//The school? Your mind is practically screaming it. // Yuugi could feel Yami smile warmly at him.
"Can't fool you...what does my mind look like now?"
// Lighter, much lighter, because you are happy. Want to go now? //
"Yep!" Yuugi felt a pull and suddenly he was looking out of a different pair of eyes. /Wow... / he breathed in awe. /I feel so much stronger now! /
"Let's go!" Yami's voice came much deeper then Yuugi's and he was almost as excited.
/Wait! Can I bring my deck? / Yami was about to answer when something flashed before his eyes...
"I choose the Celtic Guardian..." The green clad warrior stood in attack mode before a Flame Swordsmen. "Attack..."
"You got me good!" Another voice, blonde hair, brown eyes...Jou...?
Then, as quickly as it happened it was gone.
/Yami! Yami, answer me! / Yuugi was panicking, he hadn't been able to reach his other for a good minute.
"I, It's okay Aibou, I just remembered something...that's all..."
/Are you sure? / Yuugi's mind was interspaced with jagged pools of deep orange and black coming through strongly as worry.
"I'm sure, shall we go?"
/ Don't forget my deck. /
"I won't. It's here in my hand right now." Yami smiled, "now it's in my pocket, now my hand is out of my po-"
/ I get it! / Yuugi smiled, the worry finally gone making Yami happy, he never wanted anything bad to happen to his aibou, ever. The Egyptian pulled up the window, once again scattering nails all over the floor. / We have got to find another way... / Yami smiled again, his other dark thoughts quickly abated.
"Don't worry I'll get the nails later." Without a second thought he leaped out of the window, landing smoothly on the ground below.
/Wow... / Yuugi said, at both the landing and the fact that he was outside, in the open air...without permission...
"We'll be back before she notices." Yami reassured the hesitant boy.
/Can I, can I take over my body...? / He asked softly, still in awe.
"Of course." The familiar pull was back and Yuugi found himself staring about himself in wonderment, he could feel Yami's amusement. "It's so wonderful..." he sighed, breathing deeply, feeling the cool air fill his lungs. It tasted so good...
// Take you time, this is your first time outside... // Yami couldn't believe it, he would die if he was never allowed to leave the palatial estate. Palatial estate? Another memory...
"Are you all right Yami? You're being kind of quiet."
//I'm fine Aibou, don't worry so much! //
"Okay, okay. But, I've never had anyone to worry about before." His answer was seemingly annoyed silence but Yuugi knew otherwise. "To the school!" He cried, pointing down the street. "I've seen enough maps to know where it is." He began walking down the street at a reserved pace and Yami could feel the agitation, it was building in his mind as deep reds and yellows.
// Why don't you run? //
"But I-oh, she doesn't know." Yuugi seemed a bit apprehensive at being out without permission, but it wasn't like he was going to get it anytime soon. "Okay!" His sneakers padded on the sidewalk in regular beats as he pushed himself faster and faster, casting an eye about now and then for a street sign. When he felt himself begin to tire Yuugi noticed that Yami channeled energy, an electric blue streak in his mentality, into his wobbly legs allowing him to keep it up. The wind in his face and hair felt great and he wished he never had to go inside again, up in his stuffy attic room where the stale air hung in thick sheets it seemed during the summer.
// Wait! // Yami shouted suddenly while Yuugi stopped. //You almost ran right past the school! // Yuugi laughed and fell backwards into the grass inside the courtyard, panting.
"This is the best day of my life!" He shouted.
// I have a few questions Aibou, can I ask you? // Yuugi sat up and held the puzzle, feeling the warmth seep through his fingers.
"Sure."
// Last night, when I was walking alone, the grey walk way, with painted lines? What is that? //
"You didn't find the answer in my head?"
// I don't really like to pry, unless it is very important. And I enjoy hearing it from you. // Yuugi nodded in understanding.
"Oh, thanks. Um, that?" He pointed out to the road, cars were streaking by and they were just blurs. He could feel Yami's confusion as he nodded. "That is the street. It is like a pathway for cars."
// What is a...car? // Yuugi giggled.
"Those colored things roaring by!"
// I see... // Yami murmured, wanting to know more. // And those? // He asked, mentally gesturing above Yuugi's head.
"Lights, they use electricity."
//Electricity? //
"It's a type of energy used to, um, I'm not very good at explaining these things I'm afraid. Let me see...it is used to power things, make them work."
// Like magic? //
"I suppose it's something like that, only it can be explained better, just not by me."
//Fair enough. Want to go inside the school now? // Yuugi looked back at the huge building looming ominously in the shade trees.
"I don't know if they'll allow me in..."
//You won't know if you don't try. // Yuugi nodded and swallowed, plucking his courage to the sticking place as he crept slowly forward, placing a shaky hand on the door. //It says 'push'. // Yami said helpfully.
"I know...I'm just a little..."
//Scared? //
"Yeah..." he said meekly, pushing it open.
The walls were white and covered with pictures and posters of every shape and size. To his left was another door labeled 'office' and to his right were what looked like to him a million other doors leading to who knew where.
// Why don't you try the office? // Yami kept a close watch on the swirling colors inhabiting his aibou's mind, right then they were all swirled together, hard to tell one from the next, implying confusion or fear or a little of both. //You'll be fine. // Yami soothed gently, // I'm right here with you. //
"'Kay..." Yuugi stepped forward and opened the door slowly, looking around as he did so. A voice from around the door startled him and he yelped.
"I'm sorry," it said, "I didn't mean to frighten you. May I help you?" It was a tiny lady of about forty sitting at a polished desk. Her hair was just beginning to grey and it gave her a look of integrity. Petit glasses were perched on the end of her nose in front of clear and kind blue eyes. Yuugi liked her immediately.
"My name is Mutoh Yuugi and I would like to visit the school for today, if that's all right with you ma'am." He spoke the words Yami put into his head and bowed as low as he could, threatening to topple over onto the heavy oak desk.
"That would be fine." She smiled taking a liking to the polite boy in front of her. "I am Ms. Shinku, very pleased to meet you, now we need to get you a guide. Do you know anyone from here that you would like to show you around the school?"
// How about Jou? He is very kind, he showed me the way back last night. // Yami suggested, thinking back.
"Do you know a Jounochi?" Yuugi asked and Ms. Shinku grinned again.
"Yes, I know Jou, he can be quite a trouble maker but he's really a nice boy. I'll call him down for you." She gestured to a seat padded with light blue cloth.
"Thank you." Yuugi said, bowing again and sitting in the chair. Suddenly Ms. Shinku's voice boomed over the loud speaker and Yuugi noticed Yami jump the proverbial ten feet.
/ It's called a loud speaker, it projects your voice really loud. /
//I noticed that... // Yami muttered unevenly and Yuugi could picture him clutching his chest as if he had just had a heart attack. In no time at all the three occupants of the office could here Jou's voice in the hall.
"I 'onestly don't know what I did, Honda! Trust me, if I knew I'd a told ya!"
"Right Jou, just go there and take you detention like a man." A voice Yuugi didn't recognize, probably Honda's, followed Jou's statement. Then the girl spoke.
"I'm sure it's a misunderstanding if you really are telling the truth."
"I am! I am!" Ms. Shinku held back a laugh.
"It's almost lunch time so these three were probably headed outside anyway." She explained. Yuugi nodded in understanding but on the inside he was screaming.
/Yami! What'll I do? Mother will come up to my room in a few minutes! /
//Relax, everything will be all right Aibou, what's the worst she can do to you? //
/You don't want to know.../ the boy bemoaned, his mind becoming a swirling torrent of dark colors.
// She won't hurt you will she? // Yami asked, blood ready to boil if that was the case.
/ Of course not! ...but the next time you see me I may be strapped to a hospital bed with an IV drip in my arm... /
// IV drip? // This whole exchange happened in less then twenty seconds and before Yuugi could answer Yami's question Jou had burst in through the door.
"I didn't do it!" He exclaimed.
"You don't even know what you're down here for, Jounochi." Ms. Shinku chuckled.
"I'm not in trouble then?"
"Of course not, I need you to show Yuugi around the school for me."
"Yuugi?" Jou turned his head and noticed for the first time that Yuugi was sitting less then three feet away from him, who waved and grinned at the blonde. "Oh, hey Yuug' Didn't see ya there! Sure, I'll show ya around the school!"
"Thank you!" Yuugi exclaimed, forgetting for the moment about his overbearing mother.
When the very short tour of the school was over they all sat at a bench in the backyard. "And dat is our school!" Jou finished with flourish, throwing him arms out to the sides and grinning. "Now, le's eat!"
// Quite enthusiastic isn't he? // Yami smiled. He had been fairly silent, trying to figure out who he really was, with the occasional question to Yuugi about random things in the school.
/ That's okay, I like him. / Every one of their little group was in high spirits, Yuugi because he had finally found some friends and the trio because they got to miss classes for the rest of the day.
"What do you have Jou?" Anzu asked as the blonde carried a huge bag, heaving with the weight, and set it down with a loud thump in the middle of the table.
"Ramen!" He announced happily, ripping open one of the many cartons. "Mmmph!" He murmured in between gulps. "I love ramen..." he sighed contentedly after finishing his first two in a matter of seconds. He was just starting on his third as Anzu and Honda both took out sandwiches. Yuugi just looked on with wonderment. Hell would freeze over before his mother let him have ramen.
"Aren't you going to eat something Yuug'?" Asked Honda, taking a bite.
"No, I'm not hungry..." he lied, not wanting to impose.
"Have some ramen!" Jou slurped happily, handing him a box and some chopsticks.
"No, I really couldn't..." Yuugi stuttered.
// Nonsense, Aibou, you have to eat something, and besides, you've never had it before. It'll be fun to try! // He pondered Yami's words, finally deciding that he would take a bite-but just one. Everybody watched as the noodles shakily, slowly made it to his mouth, his lips closing around them. They watched his throat as he swallowed. He had told them all about his life at home, as they had asked, so they understood his hesitation. // Aibou? // Yuugi's face broke out into a huge grin and he shouted, waving the chopsticks in the air.
"I love ramen!" He then proceeded to inhale everything but the box much to the amusement of Anzu and Honda, Jou just nodded.
"A course he does, everybody loves ramen."
After Yuugi's third box, Jou's fifth, lunch was finally over. It had ended in a contest of who could eat one faster and of course Jou had won, Yuugi didn't have the experience...yet.
"Do any one of you guys play Duel Monsters?" Yuugi asked offhandedly as they sat on the bench enjoying the warmth of the sun on their faces.
"I do!" Jou exclaimed, taking his deck out of his pocket and placing it on the table, "wanna duel?"
"Sure!" Gingerly the boy took his deck out of his pocket and placed it next to Jou's. "I'll cut yours, you cut mine?" The both nodded and cut each other's decks, Anzu and Honda sat back and watched.
In no time the playing field was set and Yuugi had already devastated four of Jou's monsters and the blonde was down to 320 life points, Yuugi still had 2000, their starting number.
"Well, I'm toast." Jou muttered, placing a monster on the playing field and then removing it, throwing it into the discard pile.
"Aww," sighed Yuugi, "I didn't even get to play my best move..."
"What's that?"
"Exodia." Yuugi said bluntly, "I only needed one more piece." He picked up the card on top of his deck. "And here it is. What?" The others were staring at the five, the rarest cards in the whole game, with their mouths open.
"I, I nevah even expected to see those..." Jou breathed. "Can I...touch 'em?"
"Sure." Yuugi said, a bit taken aback he watched Jou's fingers inch forward and touch a card, the right arm, gently.
"Wow..." Yuugi giggled and let them leaf through his deck.
/ Yami? This is great! I never want this day to end! / He waited for a response and receiving none pried a little wanting to see if he could access Yami's mind like he could do to his, no luck. / Yami? Are you all right? /
// What? I'm sorry Aibou, I was thinking... // he trailed off.
/ What about? /
// Your game, it seems so familiar... like I've played it before... //
/ Neat! Next time I'll let you play! We'll see how good you are! / Yami chuckled absent mindedly.
// Of course, Aibou. //
Two tables away the only other figure in the courtyard chuckled evilly, his slanted green eyes conveying loathing and humor all at once.
"Mutoh Yuugi." He whispered, smooth voice dripping antipathy. "You shall have to see what I have in store for you, ah yes, it will be much fun indeed..." His fingers steeped as he mulled his plan over in his head one last time. "I look forward to our reunion Yugioh...and the day when I finally steal your puzzle..."
And it takes an evil twist...or does it?